# Coyne on the war between science and faith

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**Created:** [December 14, 2020, 3:10am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/coyne-on-the-war-between-science-and-faith/12756 "2020-12-14T03:10:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 10:48pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/coyne-on-the-war-between-science-and-faith/12756/77 "2020-12-16T22:48:24Z")

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> [@thoughtful](#):
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> But I’ll bite: what **facts** do YEC ignore?

The fact life has been on the planet evolving for close to 4 billion years is a biggie. It’s a fact there was no global covering mega-Flood only 4500 years ago. It’s a fact all extant animal species weren’t bottlenecked down to one or seven breeding pairs in that same 4500 year ago time. Fact doesn’t mean “absolute truth”. It means **confirmed to such a high degree it is virtually universally accepted as objective reality.** The YEC claim of “same data different interpretation” is about the lamest hand-waving excuse imaginable.

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